Porcine pancreas lipase(PPL) immobilized on narrow distributed micron glass beads was employed successfully for ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone(CL).Different polymerization conditions such as enzyme concentration,reaction temperature and reaction time were studied.The results showed that M_n of the resulting PCL was significantly increased compared with that catalyzed by PPL.Higher temperature and longer reaction time both contributed to gaining PCL with a higher molecular weight,while the yield had almost no change.In addition,for evaluating the recyclibilty of immobilized PPL on narrow distributed micron glass beads for the ring-opening polymerization of CL,we adopted the most severe reaction conditions(180 ℃,(240 h)) in the recycling experiments.It was found that the recovered immobilized PPL could be used again with a compatible high catalytic activity.The highest M_n of 21 300 of PCL could be obtained at a mass fraction of 5.18% of the reused immobilized PPL at 180 ℃ for 240 h,which is the highest M_n of PCL catalyzed by PPL.The excellent recyclability of immobilized PPL on narrow distributed micron glass beads is very helpful to its further industry applications.
